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Miners' Strike. South Africa 1946. Synopsis. In August 1946 the African Mine Workers Union (AMWU) in South Africa called a strike of black miners in the country's Witwatersrand gold producing region. The strike was the first widespread action taken by African workers since 1920.

Brief history of diamond mining in South Africa. INCLUDING MAJOR EVENTS 1867 Diamonds are discovered in the Cape Colony – now the Northern Cape – when 15-year-old Erasmus Jacobs finds a transparent rock on his father's farm. ... Major diamond strike at Kimberley in Northern Cape 1870 Cecil Rhodes arrives in South Africa and invests three ...

Jul 10, 2014· Five months of striking in South Africa's platinum belt have brought South Africa's economy to its knees, and platinum mineworkers will never recover from the five-month strike in the platinum mining sector, says SA Communist Party general secretary Blade Nzimande. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) embarked on a strike at platinum mines [.]

May 14, 2018· The strike was the longest work stoppage in South African history. It continued for five months and cost workers earnings of around R10.6-billion. The industry lost R24-billion in revenue.

Feb 26, 2019· South African platinum producers, the world's biggest miners of the metal, have asked a court to block a planned strike by one of the country's largest mining unions that the companies say ...

Dec 07, 2007· Miners belonging to the 250,000-strong South African National Union of Miners (NUM) took one-day strike action on Tuesday, December 4. The strike, the first national walkout by miners .

Palladium surged to a record high on Tuesday, rising above $1,550, as the threat of strikes in the South African mining industry aggravated supply concerns in an already tight market, while gold ...

Mining: a brief history. The 1970s are best remembered for disco, bell-bottoms, and the mesmerising lava lamp. It was also the decade that saw South African mining forge ahead in its influence on the economy and employment.

Anglo American Corporation of South Africa founded. 1921-Creation of Communist party. 1939-45-South Africa fights with the Allies in World War II. 1946-Over 70,000 African gold-mine workers strike ...

History of South African Economy Timeline created by m1na. In History. Jan 1, 1600. ... with the most cattle. Jan 1, 1600. Traditional Banu's living in South Africa The people in who lived in South Africa before the settlers arrived was traditional Bantu people. Apr 6, 1652 . Jan van Riebeeck arives in the Cape ... Marikana Miners Strike

From the mid-1800s, the Voortrekkers coalesced in two land-locked white-ruled republics, the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State. The mineral revolution. South Africa's diamond mining industry dates back to 1867, when diamonds were discovered near Kimberley in what is today known as the Northern Cape.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a trade union in South Africa. With a membership of 300,000 it is the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. It was founded in 1982 as a black mine workers union by Cyril Ramaphosa and grew rapidly, winning bargaining recognition from the Chamber of Mines in 1983.: 51

The five month long strike affected both the workers and the mining companies. The South African mining industry shed 20,000 jobs in the 12 months leading to June 2013, and that trend was set to continue due to low margins, cost pressures and volatile commodity prices.

London — Here is a timeline on how the "Fridays for Future" school strikes developed into a global movement and some of the controversies it has seen along the way Student activist Greta ...

Dec 05, 2007· More than half of South Africa's miners yesterday took part in a one-day strike over safety standards. At some mines more than 90% stayed .

According to SABC News, such a strike would affect a number of businesses in South Africa. The sector has guards in malls, the mining industry, residential clusters, universities, and parking lots.

Apr 04, 2018· A chronology of key events in the history of South Africa from 4th-century migrations to the present day. ... South Africa profile - Timeline. 4 April 2018. ... Around 100,000 gold miners strike ...

Jun 16, 2014· The longest strike in South Africa's history has ended. For nearly five long months, platinum miners affiliated to the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) held out against the arrogance and intransigence of the platinum .

Aug 21, 2012· On August 4, 1946 over one thousand miners assembled in Market Square in Johannesburg, South Africa. No hall in the town was big enough to hold them, and no one would have rented one to them anyway. The miners were members of the African Mine Worker's Union (AMWU), a non-European union which was formed five [.]

Jun 25, 2014· After five months, South Africa's platinum miners strike has ended with a deal that will see the lowest paid workers receiving increases of R1,000 (£55) a month.

Sep 15, 2012· Vishwas Satgar: Government forced to drop murder charges against miners

The tougher U.S. measures ban the import of South African agriculture, iron and steel and prohibit U.S. loans and investment to South Africa. 1987: Railway strike A strike by black railway workers leads to the worst violence in South Africa since the government declared a national state of emergency in 1986.

Apr 24, 2016· In August 2012, mine workers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days into the strike, the .

The platinum miners were mainly based in Marikana, the town in which Julius Malema jump started his political party and gained popularity with most of the miners. The strike, the longest in the history of South Africa, ended in late June 2014 when the mineworkers union signed a 3-year settlement deal with the mine owners which saw the lowest ...
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